At the Yulong Copper Mine in Qamdo, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, perched 5,000 meters above sea level on the rugged Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, ore transport trucks glide over gravel roads, winding through snow-dusted mountains and the thinning air.
Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region has targeted strong economic and social development in 2025, with infrastructure construction, eco-environmental conservation and reconstruction in the quake-hit areas some of its priorities listed in the regional government work report.
A few days have passed after the 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Dingri, the Xizang Autonomous Region. The rescue and relief work following the earthquake has been effectively and orderly promoted, and the production and living order of the people in the earthquake-stricken areas is stable.
A total of 5,152 makeshift houses have been set up since a 6.8-magnitude earthquake jolted Dingri County in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region last week, to shield the affected residents from the bitter cold, according to a press briefing held on Thursday.
Each household will be lit up tonight.” On January 9, staff of State Grid Corporation of China came to Cuo’ang Village to help people in a settlement site to restore power.
The earthquake relief work following the Dingri 6.8-magnitude earthquake in the Xizang Autonomous Region is in a critical stage. Recently, multiple medical rescue teams from China at all levels have been working hard to carry out the relief work. Among them,
January 13 was the seventh day after the occurrence of the 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Dingri County, Southwest China’s Xizang autonomous region. At 9:30 a.m., a memorial service was held to mourn the victims of the 6.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Chamco Township, one of the worst-hit areas in the county
Emergency workers help transfer packs of highland barley retrieved from debris for a farmer in Chamco Township, Dingri County in Xigaze, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Jan. 13, 2025.
The government is so concerned about us. We will overcome the difficulties!” a villager in Zuocuo Village, Qulho Township, Dingri County, Xigaze, the Xizang Autonomous Region told the journalist.
On January 11, the people of Gurum Village, Chamco Township, one of the worst-hit villages by the earthquake in Dingri County, the Xizang Autonomous Region, have moved from tents to portable houses.
Currently, local authorities and rescue teams are busy erecting makeshift houses, allowing displaced residents to move from tents to more earthquake-resistant housing.
A memorial service was held on Monday morning in Dingri county, Xizang autonomous region, to mourn the victims of the 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Dingri last week.
Zongbu Monastery, with a history of more than 600 years, is a nunnery on the hillside. Tenzin Quzong was still scared when recalling the earthquake at that time.
Cedain Lhamo, a trauma counselor at a relocation site in Dingri County, grew concerned when she saw a young girl covering her ears and fleeing in distress during an aftershock, even though the girl was outdoors and in the open.
The 6.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Dingri county, Xigaze, Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region caused varying degrees of damage to temples in the epicenter region.
Tan Xiren, an expert of the Institute of Psychology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and other members of a psychology support team arrived on Thursday at different temporary settlements in quake-hit Dingri County.
At a resettlement site on Sunday, Tan Xiren handed out paintbrushes, drawing papers and candies to disaster-affected children from the earthquake-struck Qulho Township of Dingri County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region.
On Sunday morning, at a newly-built resettlement site in the earthquake-struck county of Dinggye, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, children were doing their homework inside warm makeshift houses, undisturbed by occasional jolts of aftershocks and the chilling winds howling through the Himalayas.
The quick and efficient response to the 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Xizang attests to China's good governance and its tenet of putting the people and their lives first.
After the 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck in Dingri County, Xigaze City, the Xizang Autonomous Region, Panchen Erdeni Chos-kyi rGyal-po, a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and vice president of the Buddhist Association of China, chanted prayers for the earthquake-hit areas several times.
His face covered by dust and sweat, his fingernails bloodied and dirty, police officer Dondrub Tsering dug through the debris of fallen buildings with his bare hands to hunt for survivors after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit Dingri county in the Xizang autonomous region on Tuesday morning.
Workers build mobile houses in Quxar Township of Lnaze County in Xigaze, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Jan. 10, 2025.
Residents make bed inside a mobile house at a temporary resettlement site in Gurum Village in Chamco Township of Dingri County in Xigaze, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Jan. 10, 2025.
Qinghai Lake, the largest inland saltwater lake in China, has been expanding in size continuously for the past 20 years. The latest satellite remote sensing found that the lake's water surface had reached 4650.08 square kilometers, a year-on-year increase of 28.1 square kilometers.
